Hezbollah fighters have intensified their attacks on Israeli military positions near the Lebanon-Israel border in response to Israel’s ongoing military actions in Gaza. According to a statement from Hezbollah released on Sunday, the group targeted Israeli forces at the Birkat Risha outpost in the north of Israel, resulting in casualties among the Israeli troops. Reports from Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen... 

The U.S. State Departament recommends that U.S. citizens in Lebanon leave now while commercial flights remain available due to the unpredictable security situation and the possibility of Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah getting involved into war with Israel on behalf of Gaza Strip’s Hamas group. The U.S. government has issued the following notices that U.S. citizens living abroad should... 

Unrest is spreading across Lebanon as angry citizens unable to withdraw their own money from the nation’s banks storm their local branches with pistols and Molotov cocktails. Like some other nations are beginning to do, Lebanon has imposed new limits on how much money depositors are allowed to withdraw from their savings accounts, which is preventing many from purchasing the things they need for... 

Armored vehicles have rolled into Beirut as the Lebanese capital descended into chaos, with crowds led by Hezbollah and Amal groups demonstrating against Tarek Bitar, the lead judge of the port blast investigation. Beirut resembled a warzone on Thursday as the army deployed armored vehicles to a divided area of the city where deadly skirmishes erupted following an attack on a protest. The army declared... 

The Israeli military said it fired artillery shells into Lebanon in response to several rockets allegedly fired from across the border. Tel Aviv claimed none of the projectiles reached the Israeli territory. “6 rockets were just fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel, all of which fell inside Lebanon. In response, our artillery forces fired toward the sources of the launches,” the IDF said... 

President Trump has claimed the blast that rocked Beirut was likely an “attack,” citing US military officials who “seem to believe” the explosion was not accidental, despite widespread reports it was a chemical warehouse accident. The blast erupted at a port fireworks warehouse in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people and leaving thousands injured. Though the exact cause... 

Lebanon, Iraq and Iran have declared recent Israeli aggression as an act of war after attacks on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq over the weekend, promising devastating retaliation if the violence continues. A pair of kamikaze drone attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday and a drone strike on Palestinian militia in the Bekaa Valley early on Monday morning were akin to “a declaration of war,”... 

Lebanese Hezbollah will work with its allies to create a strategy “in the field” to confront Israel, the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said, calling again for a third Palestinian intifada (uprising), during a rally in Beirut on Monday. “Today the axis of resistance, including Hezbollah, will return as its most important priority … Jerusalem and Palestine and the Palestinian people... 

Around 300 civilians were killed in eleven airstrikes conducted by the US-led coalition in Syria, which Amnesty International investigated for its latest report. Amnesty says the US must come clean about the civilian toll of its fight against Islamic State. Amnesty suspects that US Central Command (CENTCOM), which directs coalition airstrikes in Syria, “may have… carried out unlawful attacks”... 

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah agreed with Donald Trump in a speech on Saturday. The Shiite leaders told supporters the Obama administration founded ISIS. The Hill reported: The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group agreed with Donald Trump when he said President Obama founded ISIS. “This is an American presidential candidate who is saying this. What he says is based on facts and documents,”... 

Like a vengeful Mafia don Recep Tayyip Erdogan shot down a Russian plane and nudged the Middle East a step closer to all-out war. A few hours after the attack Obama climbed up on his soap box and said Turkey has a right to protect its national sovereignty. Erdogan’s attack, however, had nothing to do with sovereignty or airspace. It was retaliation for Russia messing with his family business. The... 

Patriarch Moran Mor Bechara Boutros al-Rahi is a Catholic Cardinal and head of the Maronite Church in Antioch, Lebanon. Patriarch Moran Mor Bechara Boutros al-Rahi spoke out against the persecution of Christians by ISIS in 2014. In a recent interview Cardinal Boutros al-Rahi warned that Muslims would conquer Europe by their faith in Islam and their procreation numbers. Breitbart.com reported: In a... 

Several cartons of narcotics seized from a Saudi prince by Lebanese authorities in Beirut. Security forces in Lebanon interrogate a Saudi prince on charges of carrying drugs on his private plane, Lebanese media say. Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was detained on Monday at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, while in possession of 24 bags and eight... 

A rock-shaped Israeli-made espionage device was found in the southern Lebanese town of Bani Hayan on September 30, 2015. A highly camouflaged Israeli espionage device has been discovered in southern Lebanon, the country’s army says. “An army force discovered an Israeli spy device in a rock connected to an electric cable. A military expert arrived at the scene and dismantled the device,” the Lebanese... 

Assyrians hold placards and wave their community’s flag as they protest against ISIL abductions in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, February 28, 2015. Hundreds of Assyrian Christians have staged a rally in Lebanon to censure the recent abduction of over 200 members of the community by ISIL militants in northeastern Syria. The Christians took to the streets in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, waving their...